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Originally Posted by LivresInOz
Thanks all.
If I keep it simple by using commas between names, will a search for those names on the Kobo find them?
eg.
John Smith, Don Roberts, Mary McGee
The take-home of my msg above was that using an "&" (in author section) is what made the book not show up.
(Well specifically: an '&' before the last name. Havent tried '&' between all names)
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The & between the author names is needed by calibre. Unless you have set calibre to display LN, FN in the author field, there should be no commas. As far as I recall, your Kobo stock firmware will only read the first author name from the dc:creator fields in the .opf file however on the second connection (the send metadata phase), any other author names will be added to the ebook's database entry.
I.e. Calibre's Author(s) field contains John Ringo & Lydia Sherrer, series/index fields contains Into the Real [01].
On the first connect, the ebook is sent to your Kobo and imported. After the import, if you look at the ebook's library entry in Kobo's GUI, it will only show the first author name.
On the second connect, the metadata is added to the ebook's database entry. If you look at the ebook's library entry in Kobo's GUI, it now show both author's names and the series.
Edit: please note that I am using Metadata managment set to Automatic management. Otherwise on the second connect, I would have to manually start the metadata update.